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"Set at least a decade into the future, the appearance of iOS 6 in the new film seems oddly out of place"

It is actually IOS 12. Apple realized their mistake a few years after IOS 7, apologized and went back to the look and feel of IOS 6. Kind of how everyone looks back at the styles of the 80's and say "what were we thinking?"

How can you say such a thing? The 80s were the swansong of music.

"If the young are not initiated into the village, they will burn it down just to feel its warmth."- African proverb

Movies that take place in the future should never use current actual technology unless it's supposed to be retro. In short order, it looks ridiculously out of date. It always bothered me on the original Star Trek that all the large displays had a 1.33:1 aspect ratio. If they can make an unbelievable realistic looking ape from motion capture and CGI, it shouldn't be too hard to make a prop that looks like the future, like something with a paper thin display or that projects into the air, but is still readable.

Now in this case, once society supposedly fell apart at the end of the "Rise..." film, there probably wasn't any further technological development, so equipment consistent with whatever that date was supposed to be would actually be fine. Unless everyone at Apple, working at the completed spaceship campus (since the film supposedly takes place at least a few years into the future) was isolated enough and didn't get the virus. But even that wouldn't matter because they wouldn't have anyone to sell to.

I did read the article, a few times actually, it was quite disjointed, and no, he didn't say that.

things dont have to be explicitly stated to be present. clearly this article is about technology and the arts coming together. thats the sub-text of the piece. you just didnt get it, because it wasnt spelled out for you.

I always thought the first film was set in "present day" at the time. It may have taken a year or so to rise up and then spread anarchy thought the Bay Area. The iPad could have been from ground zero of the primate attack. If they were smart, they would have attacked the electrical infrastructure first.

things dont have to be explicitly stated to be present. clearly this article is about technology and the arts coming together. thats the sub-text of the piece. you just didnt get it, because it wasnt spelled out for you.

Um, yes they do, if they haven't been stated (either explicitly or non explicitly) then they don't exist, otherwise the message is up to individual interpretation (ie for me, he didn't say any like that)

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Originally Posted by NolaMacGuy

bet you cant wait for the new Transformers movie, huh?

I don't go to the cinema so I didn't know there was a new one coming out, but thanks for letting me know, although not sure what that has to do with DED and his disjointed article?